Tivela (Pachydesma) inezana

Tivela (Pachydesma) inezana

via GBIF · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
Tivela (Pachydesma)PBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Tivela
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Tivela
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Tivela
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 21 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 21 occurrencesMiocene — about 20 of 21 occurrencesMiocene38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences33.9 Mya23.04 Mya38.2 Mya15.5 Mya

21 occurrences of Tivela (Pachydesma) inezana on record. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

21 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

4 formations

Vaqueros — 33.54°N, 117.78°WVaqueros — 33.55°N, 117.82°WVaqueros — 33.77°N, 117.89°WVaqueros — 33.78°N, 117.70°WVaqueros — 33.70°N, 117.71°WVaqueros — 33.64°N, 117.59°WVaqueros — 34.33°N, 119.03°WVaqueros — 34.52°N, 120.43°WVaqueros — 34.58°N, 120.16°WVaqueros — 34.58°N, 120.14°WVaqueros — 34.93°N, 119.06°WVaqueros — 34.98°N, 120.21°WSespe — 33.77°N, 117.68°WSespe — 33.76°N, 117.78°WJewett — 35.49°N, 118.85°WWheatland — 39.07°N, 121.36°W

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The named rock units Tivela (Pachydesma) inezana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Found in the same rock

213 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Tivela (Pachydesma) inezana, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

4 references

Each of the 21 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Tivela (Pachydesma) inezana

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itTivela (Pachydesma) through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1856)